smudger

English

Etymology

From smudge +‎ -er.

Noun

smudger (plural smudgers)

1. One who, or that which, smudges.
   • 1964, William Wasserstrom, Civil Liberties and the Arts: Selections from Twice a Year, 1938-48, page 230:

     Servile smudgers of history, prattling about an Emil Ludwig and a Thomas Mann season — meaning the Weimar period — as if it had produced me and as if I had used the Republic for a background!

   • 2002, David Bergsland, Introduction to Digital Publishing, page 147:

     The tools can get rather exotic - spinners, rubber stamps, airbrush, smudgers, and so on.

2. (dated, slang, British) A photographer.
   • 2004, Ray Puxley, Britslang: An Uncensored A-Z of the People's Language, Including Rhyming Slang, Robson, published 2004, page 456:

     Smudger An old term for a photographer, one that alludes to dodgy developing.

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